I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.

Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.

I mostly check if my SIL is watching anything before rebooting & updating. Otherwise my wife will stick her head in two minutes later to ask if jellyfin is down.

I have a bit more memory, so I jump between the two qwen 3.8s.

Glimmer muse was a good contender in the MoE space for a few days. Might be more viable on 8gb.

I try most models, that get support in llama.cpp or forks. IIRC I wasn’t overly impressed with this one. Slower than it should be, mostly because its KV cache is huge.

I can’t recall where I got them. Probably the cheapest stuff off of eBay or Amazon. Looks like adafruit has one, too.

The original remote for my Panasonic units sends all the settings over IrDA, so I only had to record and replay the commands to turn it on and off.

The only internet-connected 32-bit device I own is a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS. I have an OG raspberry pi that controls a model lighthouse that we have for decoration.

In my old house I had two pi zero W:s with IR-HATs that turned on the air conditioning when they saw my phone nearby over Bluetooth. I’d still run those if I lived there.

No, well I do the first mount over sshfs, then wrap EncFS because I don’t trust hetzner with my unencrypted data. rsync just makes sure I only copy whatever files changed since last run to keep traffic at a minimum.

I’ve gone up one size. 5TB for 10,90€.

Weekly cronjob that mounts the storage box, an EncFS volume and rsyncs my files.

This.

However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.

I’ve heard they shut down domains for no reason and without appeal process.

There’s plenty of BBSes still being hosted on hardware like this. Like fria bad.

Most of them do require a proper PETSCII terminal, to keep the lamers out.

No, it needs a lot more babysitting than 4.5 does. 3.5 was on the same level of mistakes, at least on the quants I have to use.

Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.

It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.

I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.

I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.

Yeah, I mean apocalypse scenario is not my main goal. But it’s nice to have a contingency plan if shit would hit the fan.

This is my second season with the caravan, I had an apocalypse sailboat before that. I put 2x100W on it for the first season, added another 2x100W this season while going from 160Ah lead-acid to 300Ah Lithium. It’s a night and day difference there already.

I’m plugged in most of the time, either for air conditioning or heating - the Mrs wants her comfort. There’s a three-way absorption fridge (220V, 12V or gas) that draws like 110W. I can still be unplugged for three nights or so with that running; which makes long distances or overnight ferries possible without ruining food.

And if we want to stay somewhere without shore power we can flip the absorption fridge to gas and be cooking with gas as well. The compressor fridge chest that sips 30W usually sits in under the awning in front anyway.

You’re right.

Well, still enough juice to pump all the water we need and heat our meals.

We’ll just have to limit hot showers to once a fortnight. Needs about 800Wh to heat the hot water tank.

I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.

The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.

If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.

When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.

My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.

Probably not. LiFePO4 keep their bulk at an even 13.7V

Your lead-acid probably floats around 13.5-13.8V. the charger might pulse or occasionally go even higher to desulfate the batteries. That’d either leave your new expensive battery undercharged or worst case damaged (or have the BMS cut it off).

I’ve had better luck with llama.cpp for opencode. I’m guessing it does formatting better for tool use.

Gemma4 doesn’t Turboquant. But it is leaner on the KV cache.

edit: looks like there are forks that do turboquant already